Ruminations on the life and faith of the Church Catholic through the eyes of an Anglican priest.
"I die in the holy catholic and apostolic faith, professed by the whole church before the division of East and West."
Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 17th Century.

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Do a Google search for "rising food prices" and you'll get 391,000 results, while a search for "falling real food prices" gets about 144 results, a ratio of 2,700:1. Maybe we get so focused on the most recent year or two of rising prices for products like eggs that we lose sight of the longer term, historical trends.